Thinnes, Billy
HP Impact: Refiners in a tough market
A recent paper from Wood MacKenzie suggests the current global and US market environment for refiners is very challenging, with the industry suffering low utilizations (due to the economic crisis redu..
HP Impact: Medium voltage motor drives sales projected to decline in 2010
 Billy Thinnes, News Editor     Comments? Write:BT@HydrocarbonProcessing.comThe worldwide medium voltage motor drives market was estimated to be worth $2.17 billion in 20..
HP Associations: Fossil fuels still meet energy needs of the world
 Over Out in the Arizona desert during the waning days of March, the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association (NPRA) gathered its members for its 108th annual meeting. The assembled repres..
HP Construction: North America
Praxair, Inc., has a contract with ExxonMobil to build, own and operate an air separation unit to supply additional nitrogen for enhanced oil recovery operations at ExxonMobil's Hawkins, Texas, gas-pr..
HP Construction: South America
Braskem and Novozymes recently announced a research partnership to develop large-scale production of polypropylene from sugarcane. Braskem and Novozymes will develop a green alternative based on Novoz..
HP Construction: Europe
CB&I has a contract of approximately $50 million with Hyundai Heavy Industries to provide engineering services for the Goliat floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) project. The project is..
HP Construction: Asia-Pacific
The Singapore LNG Corp. Pte Ltd. (SLNG) has awarded the contract for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of Singapore's LNG terminal to Samsung C&T Corp. The total budget for the termi..
HP In Brief: HPIn Brief
The gribble solutionScience is the never-ending quest to make what is remarkable one moment absolutely pedestrian the next. Inventions like light bulbs and the internal combustion engine rocked the co..
HP Impact: Demand expands for hydrogen
Global demand for hydrogen is forecast to expand 3.4% per year through 2013 to 475 billion cubic meters. This is according to a new study from The Freedonia Group (www.freedoniagroup.com). Demand will..
HP Impact: OPEC's perspective on global refining operations
Looking for some intel on how refiners are faring in 2010? OPEC published a report in March that pulled numbers up to the end of February and extrapolated them out to make some predictions about the f..
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